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db.collection.dropSearchIndex()
Definition
db.collection.dropSearchIndex()
New in version 7.0: (Also available starting in 6.0.7)
Deletes an existing Atlas Search index.
Important
This command can only be run on a deployment hosted on MongoDB Atlas, and requires an Atlas cluster tier of at least M10.
Important
mongosh Method
This page documents a mongosh method. This is not
the documentation for database commands or language-specific drivers,
such as Node.js.
For the database command, see the dropSearchIndex command.
For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific MongoDB driver documentation.
For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the
documentation for the corresponding MongoDB Server release:
Syntax
Command syntax:
db.<collection>.dropSearchIndex(<name>)
Command Fields
dropSearchIndex() takes the following field:
Field | Type | Necessity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
name | string | Required | Name of the search index to drop. |
Behavior
After you run dropSearchIndex(), there may be a delay between when you
receive a response from the command and when the index is deleted.
To see the status of your search indexes, use the
$listSearchIndexes aggregation stage. Once your index is
deleted, that index no longer appears in the $listSearchIndexes
output.
Access Control
If your deployment enforces access control, the user running the
dropSearchIndex() method must have the
dropSearchIndex privilege action on the database:
{ resource: { database : true }, actions: [ "dropSearchIndex" ] }
The built-in dbAdmin and readWrite roles provide
the dropSearchIndex privilege. The following example grants the
readWrite role on the qa database:
db.grantRolesToUser( "<user>", [ { role: "readWrite", db: "qa" } ] )
Example
The following example deletes a search index named searchIndex01 on
the movies collection:
db.movies.dropSearchIndex("searchIndex01")